This page is for recording the results of Wiki Loves Pride 2014.

Project Growth

Reports

If an event or campaign was held in your city, please share the results of the activity here. Feel free to include venue details, the number of attendees, the number of articles created and/or improved, images uploaded or added to articles, pictures taken at the meetup, local press coverage, planned follow-up activities, and any other anecdotal information worth sharing!

Atlanta

Houston

India

Wiki Loves Pride, India was held during July 2014, culminating with offline events in Bangalore, Delhi and Mangalore on July 19.

  • Phadnis, Renuka (July 7, 2014). "Wikipedia edit-a-thons to add content on LGBTs". The Hindu.
  • Lasrado, Svetlana (July 15, 2014). "Wikipedia does its bit for sexual minorities". The New Indian Express.

Philadelphia

As part of an all-day event, A GLAM Day Out, guest archivist Bob Skiba, LGBT archivist at the William Way LGBT Center in Philadelphia, talked about LGBT history in Philadelphia and about some very exciting initiatives. Over the next year there will be a number of LGBT-related exhibits at different galleries, libraries, and museums in the Philadelphia area including Constitution Center, the Mutter Museum, the Library Company of Philadelphia and more. The LGBT archives have also received a grant funding a substantial expansion, doubling their space and installing climate control and other features at the archives.

A dozen people attended the afternoon's "Wiki Loves Pride" editing event, creating 2 new articles and editing others. One of the new articles is for the Anna Crusis Women's Choir, the first feminist choir in the United States, which has been active in supporting LGBT rights and other social justice causes. Photographs relating to the forty-year history of the choir are being released as we obtain the appropriate permissions to cover their licensing.

Portland, Oregon

New York City

San Francisco

Seattle

Seoul

In South Korea, nearly 50 images of Seoul's Korea Queer Culture Festival were uploaded. Commons photo challenge submissions include:

South Africa

  • De Waterkant
  • Date/Time: Saturday, June 21, 2014
  • Venue: De Waterkant, Cape Town
  • South Africa's pride season takes place earlier in the year during the summer, hence a focus on LGBT culture instead of pride events. Over 60 images of De Waterkant, a gay village in Cape Town, taken on 21 June 2014 were uploaded and a Commons gallery page was created to display them. The following selection was submitted to the Commons photo challenge:
  • Past Pride events

Vancouver

  • Nearly 25 images were uploaded, illustrating Pride 2009, Pride 2013 and Davie Village

Vienna

  • Nearly 50 images from Life Ball 2014 were uploaded

Warsaw

Washington, D.C.

New Content

  1. A Girl Named Mahmoud, Egyptian LGBT-related film (1975)
  2. AIDS Foundation Houston
  3. AIDS United
  4. Matt Alber, singer-songwriter
  5. Anna Crusis Women's Choir (Pennsylvania)
  6. Arizona Kid, novel by Ron Koertge (1998)
  7. Art and Queer Culture (2013)
  8. Beijing Queer Chorus
  9. Maria Zilda Bethlem, Brazilian actress
  10. Dana Beyer, transgender politician from Maryland
  11. Victor Blackwell, American journalist
  12. Bloomsbury Group in LGBT history
  13. Barrie Jean Borich, LGBT writer
  14. Bunnies on the Bayou, annual event in Houston, Texas
  15. Salem Capital Pride
  16. Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, Oregon
  17. Chances Bar, lesbian bar in Houston, Texas
  18. Cincinnati Pride
  19. Tim Coco
  20. Columbus Pride
  21. De Leon v. Perry (2014)
  22. Egalia, a gender-neutral preschool in Sweden
  23. Embers Avenue, Portland, Oregon
  24. Darryl Foster, American activist
  25. Michiyo Fukaya, feminist poet and activist
  26. Brenda Sue Fulton
  27. Gay & Lesbian Switchboard of New York
  28. Gay Liberation Monument, New York City
  29. Joe Gulla
  30. Lee Gye-deok, South Korean singer and activist
  31. Kakan Hermansson, Swedish artist, comedian, radio/TV host
  32. Hvaler (TV series), Norwegian drama television series
  33. Margaret Catherine Alice Hyson
  34. Illinois Department of Human Rights
  35. Tamar Iveri, Georgian opera singer; contains a section about the 2013 Tbilisi anti-homophobia rally protests
  36. Matt Kailey, trans male author and activist
  37. Kicked Out (book)
  38. Tomasz Kitliński
  39. Tamai Kobayashi, LGBT writer
  40. Korea Queer Culture Festival
  41. Der Kreis, defunct Swiss LGBT magazine
  42. Labrisz Lesbian Association (Hungary)
  43. Latta v. Otter
  44. LGBT culture in Boston
  45. LGBT culture in Eugene, Oregon
  46. LGBT culture in Houston
  47. LGBT culture in Metro Detroit
  48. LGBT culture in Philadelphia
  49. LGBT culture in Portland, Oregon
  50. LGBT in the Middle East
  51. LGBT writers in the Dutch-language area
  52. Eli Lieb, openly gay singer-songwriter
  53. List of Bloomsbury Group people
  54. "The Littlest Victims"
  55. Lawrence Lockman, American lobbyist and activist; known for making controversial statements about HIV and homosexuality
  56. Luis Negrón, LGBT writer
  57. Roy Ngerng
  58. Nuuk Pride, LGBT festival in Greenland
  59. Original Plumbing, magazine focused on transgender men
  60. Peacock in the Park, annual event in Portland, Oregon
  61. Q Center, LGBT community center in Portland, Oregon
  62. Rupert Raj
  63. Ramon Sandin, LGBT diver and actor
  64. Saraswati Park, 2010 novel
  65. Lauren Scott, transgender politician from Nevada
  66. Second Foundation (Oregon)
  67. Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man
  68. Peggy Shaw, lesbian actress
  69. Jonathan Shurberg
  70. Silverado (gay bar), Portland
  71. David Stainton, American film and television executive
  72. Statue of Gertrude Stein
  73. The Stonewall Celebration Concert, 1994 album by Renato Russo
  74. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, lesbian activist
  75. Timeline of LGBT history in New York City
  76. Dan C. Tsang, American activist
  77. Larry Uttal
  78. Valancourt Books, LGBT book publishing company
  79. "Variable and Full of Perturbation", TV episode introducing a transgender character
  80. Jackie Walker (American football, born 1950)
  81. Lex Watson, Australian LGBT rights activist and historian
  82. Jörn Weisbrodt, German arts administrator
  83. White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault
  84. Women's reproductive health in Russia







Policies and Proposals


In response to calls for online privacy by a few editors who live in countries where support for LGBT issues is a cultural and political taboo, a proposal to create exemptions for open proxy editing with Tor has been developed.

When Wikimedia community members are targeted for harassment and cyberbullying due to their participating in Wikimedia community projects, the community should support the victims even when it is not possible or reasonable to address the attacker.


Articles Expanded or Improved

Photography

Photography campaigns were hosted in a handful of locations around the world, including Portland (Oregon), Seoul, South Africa and Vancouver. In addition, Wikimedia Commons hosted an LGBT photo challenge during June, in conjunction with Wiki Loves Pride. Highlights:

Wikidata

Logo of Wikidata's LGBT task force

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in every language supported by the MediaWiki software.

June 2014 saw the creation of the LGBT task force at Wikidata, which seeks to improve LGBT-related content. In addition to the creation of this new group, a report was created which consists of people who have been identified as LGBT at English Wikipedia, but not at Wikidata. This is one of several projects being discussed by task force members. 10 users joined the LGBT task force in June 2014.